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KH and the Radio 4 Sunday Worship

Wow! What a weekend! The start of something?        Perhaps?          Yes in many ways, not only because it was Advent. Starting with a team of locals ensuring that the parking outside the Church was reserved for the BBC's OB van. Not always the simplest of tasks in an urban area and especially not here in the West End. There are always spaces to park, but we wanted one particular space right outside the front door!     Achieved! Then we had Recording checks, rehearsals, - one choir upstairs, the other downstairs. In the early evening Cathures gave one of their accomplished performances, much appreciated by all who attended, a good turnout considering that there were several other performances by various groups all on Saturday night! Come Sunday morning - early - back to Church we went, amazingly 80 people were fed and watered following the beautiful Sunday Worship Service, amazingly because I...
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Got a new Boat!

I sometimes feel as if the rain will never stop, then I look at the News and see what devastation has been caused by a cyclone in India - Half a Million people affected! All things pale into consideration -  Then I think am I scared of heights - Not if I'm careful! I really would like to see St Cecilia face to face again - especially as a technology malfunction has meant that I've lost a lot of photographs taken when KH was decked with scaffolding before, many have been retrieved but the tower on the Burne Jones Window just might give me the opportunity to retake some.  Then I also remember how happy I was to be up high on a ship's look out tower. SO I'm thinking I'm going to get a new boat, an Ark perhaps?

Here we go again!

Here we go again! More scaffolding; this tower went up on Monday, just after another successful Glasgow Doors Open Days weekend. The Window in question showed the effects of the gales the previous weekend, pieces of the external secondary protection had fallen and others were hanging loose. However as I type this Blog I know that the damage will take a bit more work than first envisaged. Already scaffolders, stained glass experts and stone masons have been involved. The conservation architects and insurance loss adjusters may well be next. I have to apologise to our new locum who was thrown in at the deep end when his first attendance at a Mission Panel meeting was enlivened by the workmen above his head. Such is life in a busy working Church building.

Bom Dia, Brasil!

Please don't ask me for the translation right away, Portuguese is not my strongest foreign language! However all will be revealed at 7pm on Friday evening at Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church. This major fundraising event for Christian Aid in Brazil will take place then -and all will be explained. All I do know is, that there will be Food and Music, and that is always a good starting point for any party. Especially as the music is Brazilian (and there will be dance as well!) surely a recipe for success? Glasgow Capoeira will perform their particular type of Dance/Martial Art, always exciting to watch and music from Duo Souza e Mello as well. With fairly-traded food and drink from both sides of the Atlantic, we're in for a most enjoyable evening. All in a good cause,and if we raise £5000, then the EC will match it! Our six combined Churches were able to do this for Malawi, so let's go for it again and spread the message of how unequal life can be in one of the fastest growin...
 Now we restart the Blog on a regular basis and as a catch up, here are some photos to bring us up to date.  More info and pics will follow and please remember that others may contribute too. Winter Sky A useful perch for the birds? Our Joint Churches Service  on a cold Winter's day Our Young Church ensures that we 'Feed the Birds' Spring Tulips Communion Flowers Plucky little Snowdrops pushing through the 'hard as iron' ground Crystal clear night Music on a Sunday afternoon  Twilight Easter Eggs Easter Chocolate (All for devouring!) Easter Daffodils - finally!

Plant Sale 2012

Precipitation: 1% Rain: 0 mm Snow: 0 cm Humidity: 60% Cloud Cover: 76% Dew Point: 6° C Visibility: 10 km And a 'real-feel' of 16 degrees C Why is this importatnt?  Beacause it's our annual Plant Sale on Saturday 2nd.June. Peter was out this last week, playing with the power tools, cutting the Grass and Hedges, all in readiness for the Sale. New this year will be the addition of our regular Book Stall, just a little extra to tempt you to part with your coppers -- or even Pounds! As per usual, there will be Cream Teas served in the Hall, (you can't have a garden event without tea) Come along and support us and stock up on locally raised bedding plants for your pots and window boxes. Hope to see you there!

Get the Glaziers in!

Is that a Perigean Moon peeking through the Scaffold? A rather fetching shade of pink for the inside tower. As before when we need to repair a window, we need to have an inside tower and an outside one. Such are the height of our windows, it's the only way.  Next week the Conservators will remove the badly damaged window and board up the space, probably for about 3 months. Then a nice clean, repaired and re-leaded window will be brought back. That should get rid of a few more drafts.